We have been working with Dean McEvoy and the Booking Angel team to create some new tools for affiliate restaurant sites to integrate Booking Angel simply by dropping Javascript code into their site.
For those of you that don’t know Booking Angel, the business solves a strikingly large problem with online booking. Whilst consumers use the web routinely to book tables at restaurants, most restaurants are not on the web to take the booking. Booking Angel takes the booking and calls the restaurant using an IVR system and then confirms the booking to the user via email.
So, here’s a sneak peak of what we are making. The new product scans the page for phone numbers wraps them in Booking Angel’s reservation ‘popability’. Here’s a phone number in the body of my page: (02) 8005 0215. Hover over the number and you will get the ability to book. The script finds other variations like this:
- 0280050215
- 02 8005 0215
Alternatively, affiliates can explicitly place the product on DIVs in the page like this:
We’ll be releasing this soon. If you would like to use this on your affiliate site, drop Dean an email – dean AT bookingangel.com